Mazar mushrooms to exploit innocent Pabna villagers

Mazar mushrooms to exploit innocent Pabna villagers

Ahmed Humayun Kabir Topu, Pabna

Treatment seekers throng the so-called mazar (shrine), set up a few months ago, at Khetupara village in Sujanagar upazila under Pabna district. PHOTO: STAR

A recently set up so-called mazar (shrine) at Khetupara village of Sujanagar upazila under the district sees thronging of hundreds of diseased people who donate money for healing with the help of the 'mystical spirit' there.

Omar Kazi and his sister Hafiza Begum established the so-called shrine at their Khetupara village home early this year.

“This is grave of Hyder Ali, an oli (Muslim saint) who lived 300 years ago. Once I was ordered in a dream to make a mazar here," Hafiza Bagum told this correspondent.

"As we delayed the work, my son Ruhul Kazi died without any disease last year. And so, I built the mazar early this
year,” Omar Kazi said.

On the other hand, villager Md Nurul Islam said, "They suddenly constructed the mazar here. We did not know about the existence of any oli's grave at the village earlier."

After establishment of the mazar, people started thronging here to take soil as mystical medicine for all diseases but the practice of eating soil stopped amid protest from conscious people, said Md Abdul Mannan Manu, a local.